Format: 45-Minute Morning Sitting Sessions
Description: The forty-minute meditation session led by Polly and Robert will provide a direct experience of the following:              
The relationship between meditation practice and poetic expressions.

• The specific conditions of the Sitting Lab practice experience: including stepping back, turning inward, shared stillness and attention, embodied presence, and collective resonance.

• The quality of perception that arises when the nervous system is settled, open, and receptive.

• How meditation can be seen as a creative act and how sitting together can create conditions for more attuned and meaningful communication. 

All participants will briefly experience sitting quietly together and co-create a group poem. After a moment of guided, embodied stillness, they will share brief reflections and participate in the echo-back process. As we witness the emergence of a collective poem from the group's shared experience, we will feel what the historical accounts describe: that stillness, when shared, generates language of unusual depth, meaning, and beauty.